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Mothering Quotes (page 29)

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
John Cleese quote: "Your Mother was A Hamsterand you Father Smelled of elder berries"
Your Mother was A Hamsterand you Father Smelled of elder berries John Cleese
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory..."
Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. Rudyard Kipling
When I was this kid's age, you'd be burned alive for such talk. Being a homosexual was unthinkable, and so you denied it, and found a girlfriend who was willing to settle for the sensitive type. On dates, you'd remind her that sex before marriage was just that, sex: what dogs did in the front yard. This as opposed to making love, which was more what you were about. A true union of souls could take anywhere from eight to ten years to properly establish, but you were willing to wait, and for... David Sedaris
Wilfred Owen quote: "Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad."
Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. Wilfred Owen
Margaret Atwood quote: "Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother..."
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. Margaret Atwood
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite eithe? Blaise Pascal
Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. ‘Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim. Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Height quote: "My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I..."
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit. Dorothy Height
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains. Samuel Beckett
I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there." My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder. Suzanne Collins
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers,..."
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. Arthur C. Clarke
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen David Eddings
Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them. Saul Bellow

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